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[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] psych2l:
Well it looks like boston's 4g was turned on and I can connect but I lose the connection once my data transfer goes idle. Does anybody know of a way to make the 4g connection more stable? I have good signal here in allston.
[XPERIA X10 General] xGary:
1) How to have best battery life? I currently already

-Turned off Bluetooth and GPS

-Wifi only when I need it

-Using SetCPU with profiles from another thread

-Low brightness

Im guessing that all the apps autostarting uses alot of battery so I always stop them with Task Killer but they just restart. I tried using Auto Task Killer but it doesnt seem to work. Any help?

2) I use like 40% a day so should I charge everyday or wait until its down at a certain level?

EDIT

Also, whats a good video converter to convert videos for the phone? Most that I tried takes forever and my computer is definately not a slow computer.
[XPERIA X10 General] ClintonH:
Stop using a task killer, the OS will handle the apps. If you keep shutting them down they have to keep restarting, that will suck power.

Any data sync will drain your battery if you us it to often, set it to a reasonable time frame.

I leave my screen on auto seems to work well, and you can charge whenever you feel like it no need to wait till it's low.

If you use Rockplayer you shouldn't even have to convert your movies unless they are full HD. It's a great player you should try it out.
[XPERIA X10 General] JohnBlade73:
Hi, mine goes down at an average of 1% battery per hour at normal use since the firmware update (v23).

I enable wifi only when I'm at home, for the rest I only use Edge/gprs because at my work the 3g signal appears to be too weak and 3G drains the battery really fast.

Bluetooth and gps are off, Google account syncing is on.

I believe that a lot of widgets have a negative effect on the battery life, so it might be a good idea to limit their number.
[XPERIA X10 General] xGary:
Ok I found out the major battery drainer via the battery usage in settings. It shows the the Display accounted for 80% of the battery usage. My display brightness is only set at aprx 25% and I have a total of 4 widgets on. Whats the problem?

Regarding the conversion, I am using rockplayer already but I just want to toggle the video settings a bit (mainly resolution) so the file size is smaller.
[XPERIA X10 General] piercewei:
40% a day is a quite good result. what is your objective for a smartphone with 4-inch diaplay and 1G cpu?
[XPERIA X10 General] xGary:
Well 40% is with like 30 min wifi, 1hr gaming, 5 min calling. 3G, GPS, BT all off. But im not out of the new battery draining cycle yet.
[XPERIA X10 General] Izzy_Deadyet:
More of a wish than an objective but a month would be nice ;)

In the early 80s a 20MB HDD was about the size of 100 X10's and now my X10 has 32GB of storage the size of a postage stamp.

The computing power of an X10 would have filled a 10 story building in 1980.

Where are the big advancements in batteries?

What we need for the X10 is a Hydrogen Fuel Cell :)
[XPERIA X10 General] Izzy_Deadyet:
Bottom line is that it's a huge screen and it sucks power.

Try this, turn off "everything" and play a 2 hour movie, doubt you'll get to the end of it.

Since the screen is so large battery life would have been better served by an AMOLED screen rather than TFT.
[XPERIA X10 General] im_iceman:
Gary.. Think this latest firm ware has a bug that shows the display draining battery much more than it really is.. You should ignore that. My display is set to auto. I get a full day from about 50%.
[XPERIA X10 General] piercewei:
yes, the current battery technology is obviously far behind the development of mobil devices industry. egeryday, we see the faster cpu, better display and os etc. the battery has become a major weakness slowing down the related industries.
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] heygrl:
I installed a task killer and noticed that when killing certain apps, the phone just lags real bad. I discontinued use of it and now the phone has no serious pausing. I was killing unknown apps with Android box icons.
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] boodies:
yeah I uninstalled it as well. I heard Android does great job of managing ram and as soon as it gets low, it will start killing other apps automatically.
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] two_cents:
you need to learn what apps need to stay running, but some apps are just fluff and worthless... you may need to set up you task killer to ignore certain apps like handcent and clock... killing any android processes is usually a bad idea.. I just kill my 3rd party apps that open for no reason or use it to close apps when I am done using my phone for a while...
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] SkOrPn:
You should not need a task killer with this phone. Android has been managing its own memory and background services quite nicely for a while now.
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] acjames:
Thats what i was told but when i uninstalled the task killer my phone lagged with everything i did. Even when closing programs properly it still lagged. Im keeping my task killer.
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] SkOrPn:
yeah maybe its not as good as most people say it is at controlling its own memory usage.
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] Xyber3364:
Task Killers = meh,

Android has a way of doing things and that means keeping apps open for some time, I tried using app-killers and it did not seem to make my phones run better, and auto kill everything is even worse...
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] speedysilwady:
idk if youre rooted or not, or if this app works on the vibrant cuz it does an amazing job on the g1, but you could try autokiller, tho it requires root. what it does is change the android memory management settings and will kill apps more frequently depending on the settings you choose.
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] heygrl:
I still need to use it for those unruly apps but I got so used to it because my old phone would lag with Slacker even in the background and I had to kill it. I've stopped using it and I've stopped having major problems. Just an FYI for those out there that still use one, it's not needed here on a regular basis really.
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] Ste11a:
I noticed that I can't use the "kill all" function in Advanced Task Manager by Arron La any more without making my phone freeze up. My brother suggestion Task Manager by Rhythm Software (he has a MyTouch Slide). This program doesn't give me any problems when killing files and also doesn't list system files (that I've noticed).
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] siberslug:
The people who are having problems with task killer are the ones that are not setting it up correctly or don't have enough apps installed for it to make any difference.

If you don't setup the ignore list correctly your phone will freak out or make your existing problem worse.

Android 2.2 is a different story though, Froyo is faster without a taskiller
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] dan0zone:
Buddy here's what .....

Download AutoKiller from the market , then go to the dev's webpage ,there he has a lot of information about android and memory management .... then you can make an informed decision .... the lag issue you continue to have .,.,..., you might have to do a hard reset to clear the system of that poorly coded task/app killer ....

Here's some more information http://androidforums.com/samsung-vibrant/124542-constant-apps-restarting-themselves.html

I hope that here on xda we can help people to understand Android and memory management , so they are not fooled by these task/app killers that work against the system ......
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] air2k57:
I used to have the original my touch 3g, lag central, even on custom roms. Task killer was handy, so I got in the Babbitt if killing tasks. I then got me a nexus, and it seemed to have not needed one, but I still used it out of the Babbitt and being paranoid of my plbattery being wasted with apps on the background and lag lol. Well, I'm now done with them, seriously, no need for task killers. I think on this phone it does more damage then good, most apps need to be running on the background, killing them just lags your phone. Like you'd lose signal, or it would run time and date update again, etc.
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] ultra spikey:
Task killers may not be necessary for memory management, but it will help save on battery by killing 3rd party apps that stay running in the background. I use Advanced Task Manager myself, and never get any lag when I run it. The main thing you need to "exclude" if you havnt already, is the TWLauncher(or whatever launcher you're running).
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oworsnop:
Hey all. I was using leedroids froyosense Rom but I stopped using it because everytime I unplugged my charger when my phone had charged to full, the battery would jump down to about 90 percent straight away..

Now I'm back on Adam G's sense froyo rom, but the same things happening again, this time if drops down to around 96 percent though..

Can anyone shed any light on this?

Thanks in advance.

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[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AndroHero:
do you people not search?? it been talked about for weeks this, when the desire reaches 100% it starts discharging to 90% before it starts charging again, even tho the batt says 100% so its random between 100 - 90 % when you unplug your phone, you wont know the correct charge level till the battery polls again 2-3 mins later :confused:
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oworsnop:
Of course I search! It's all I do! But iv charged my phone overnight for 10th hours plus so there is plenty of time to discharge to 90 percent or so then back to 100 percent but its just not happening.

Instead it just drops down and stays down.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AndroHero:
it dosent do it just once, every time the fone gets to 100% it starts discarging!! the process is called exercising the battery :) btw i charge my fone with the power off and dont have this problem, but have noticed it when charging with power on
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oworsnop:
Ah i see. Just turned my phone off when it got to green when the phone was turned on then turned it off and it topped itself back up to green and now its still on 100 percent after half an hour.

Thanks for your help!
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AndroHero:
no trouble :)
[Desire General] predo:
I'm sure every one knows about these random data connection lock ups that most of desire users are experiencing on TMobile UK. Missed calls when phone didnt ring, connection hanging and eventually displaying error etc.

Anyway, my contract with TMob is up and i want to go elsewhere to see if problems are network related or is it wider issue... i had the same problems with hero on tmobile uk by the way...

What networks in uk you're using your desires on and are you experiencing any data connectivity lock ups? I'm particularly interested in 3UK but if O2 doesnt have these problems and 3 does i'll go to o2.

Cheers
[Desire General] AndroHero:
did i miss somthing :confused: im on tmob pay as you go and have none of thoes problems, infact i moved from orange to tmob as orange is so crap lol
[Desire General] AMoosa:
I'm on 3 and have no issues at all. Highly recommended.

Sent from my HTC Desire
[Desire General] adesonic:
I am on O2 (with unbranded desire), no problems to report
[Desire General] tinytom21:
I'm on T-Mobile and my reception is always crap. It's very frustrating as I have always been with Orange and they were perfect!

I'm sure that the low signal is causing the battery to drain much faster and the data connection to be extremely slow.

Wouldn't recommend at all..

Ps I live in the West Midlands and go to University in Bath, so these are the places I have tested it...
[Desire General] th3:
T-mobile UK since the day the first batch hit London here. No such problems.

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- Sent via my HTC Desire -
[Desire General] foxmeister:
Nope - not heard of any of these issues on TMo, and not experienced them either.

Regards,

Dave
[Desire General] 400ixl:
Not experienced any of this on T-Mobile either.

As for the signal comment, then that is very much dependant on where you live. So pretty invalid really.

Can't even get a signal on Orange where I live, but T-Mobile gets one.
[Desire General] atomfix:
Orange is good. With great customer service as well :)
[Desire General] foxmeister:
Within the lifetime of any new 18/24 month contract, the Orange/TMo will be completed and there will little or no difference between them.

Regards,

Dave
[Desire General] predo:
Wow seriously... its absolutely buzzing about this on Tmobile forums... strange that no one ever on here experienced this problem.... it only partially is dependent on where i live because i was geting lock ups at home, at work several miles away, at another office, all within Edinburgh and down in london last weekend as well!!!

Anyway maybe it is problem with this particular handset... both heros i had had this problem and now desire... could i be so unlucky?

Seriously none of you experienced strange missed call txts when phone never rang and when browsing net up arrow next to H symbol being stuck while down didnt flash at all?
[Desire General] wilbur-force:
nope. on T-Mob UK and not had any problems. worth noting that Orange 'unlimted internet' is 500-750mb while T-mobile give 3GB on android phones .....
[Desire General] sh500:
Nope, you're not the only one, there are MANY suffering from similar issues and not just on T-Mobile either. Check out some of the other threads - '3G data connection' or something similar.

I was also one of the people who got the first Desire batch from T-mobile and have been getting 'hangs' whenever I'm in an 3G only area, it only comes back when it can connect to either G or H.
[Desire General] foxmeister:
It's probably buzzing on the TMo forums, because they are frequented by people having issues with the network/phone. I've no reason to go there, because I don't have any such issues, so this is news to me.

Nope, never! Have you tried any of the newer radios?

Regards,

Dave
[Desire General] foxmeister:
Are you talking about data here? I had this issue with my Hero, but never with my Desire.

Regards,

Dave
[Desire General] predo:
well I haven't tried newer radios because I want to keep phone stock in case I need to send it back for replacement. I had Hero already replaced once because of this issue and I'm wondering if I need to try to get replacement Desire as well.

Issue is 3g locking up when using internet (UP arrow flashing and DOWN arrow not). When you try to call the phone when that happens it goes straight to voicemail.
[Vibrant General] southpaw773:
One big plus for me on the Vibrant's music app was that it has actual settings in the music player. It has an equalizer (custom and preset), and audio enhancements (bass boost, live, etc).

however, the big fail is that if you stop playing the music, unplug the headphones, exit, etc. then all these settings/preferences change back to factory default upon your next visit to playing music in the app.

that doesn't make any sense.

i do know that some of the settings only work for headphones and not in 'non headphone' mode but it should know to save that preference. any way to get it to permanantly save the audio settings?
[Vibrant General] heygrl:
If you're using settings that only apply when the headphones are in like Bass Enhancement, there is no way around it defaulting to Normal. If it's not saving your headphone settings for those specific things I can believe that, but I don't think we can fix it.
[EVO 4G Android Development] Cal3b:
Ok i saw a few people wanting to find their MSL with out CDMA workshop or customer service. I'll show you how. (I guess this doesn't work for some who installed the OTA update. I installed the OTA and am rooted and it worked for me.)

1. Install aLogcat from the market (its awesome and free)

2. From your dial pad dial ##3282# when the EPST menu pops up select view mode

3.Open aLogcat let it run for a sec and let it catch up

4. Press menu then press send and select email

5. Enter your own email address and send it

6. From your computer open the email and hit CTRL and F at the same time it will bring up a search bar

7. In the search bar type in MSL and hit enter

8. You should now be looking at a line like this

I/EpstBroadcastReceiver( 2089): MSLCODE 1:+HTC_RMSL:######

the #s are where your MSL will be

9. You are welcome!!
[EVO 4G Android Development] sugarsine:
I heard this doesn't work anymore after the ota. I have tried a similar method using the ame app but no luck. Does emailing the log make a difference cuz i just scanned the log on the phone looking for that msl entry.
[EVO 4G Android Development] psychopsilocin:
Couldn't find it. Followed each step to a T.

I'm on the latest OTA, rooted, BTW.
[EVO 4G Android Development] smw6180:
They fixed it with the first OTA. If you can get back to a pre-ota stock then that works fine.

Otherwise the easiest way is to simply call Sprint and ask.
[EVO 4G Android Development] adeyo:
i never had OTA ( still don't ) and it still doesnt show anywhere...btw
[EVO 4G Android Development] smw6180:
Then you bought our phone with it already updated most likely. Because it works with the base ROM that the Evo was released with. It's how I got mine.
[EVO 4G Android Development] geekykid:
this should not be posted in the development subforum. An article stating the same thing, which afaik doesnt work any longer due to the first OTA, has already been created over a month ago. The easiest way is to call Sprint and ask them. It takes two minutes.

Mods, please move this topic to General or QA.

Thanks
[EVO 4G Android Development] smw6180:
As an FYI if you want the mods to move something (given that I doubt they have time to sift through every post of every thread) click the little ! icon on the upper right corner of the OP. That brings the post to their attention.
[EVO 4G Android Development] Cal3b:
i have the ota (rooted) and it worked for me

if you want a good reason to give sprint customer service tell them every time you open an app that uses gps the phone crashes. tell them you need to reset the gps receiver using ##4772579# and you need your msl to do so. they didnt even ask me why when i asked for mine.
[EVO 4G Android Development] Cal3b:
no i just find it easier to scan stuff on the computer especially since my log was 10+ pages
[EVO 4G Android Development] DraginMagik:
perhaps OP can change the name of this thread since it does work once the OTAs have been applied....hence it is wrong.
[EVO 4G Android Development] warmthsound:
Bummer. No go in Froyo.
[Streak 5 General] alfri:
there is a deactivation code? to a friend O2 said that after a month they send associated all'imei. right? and we are waiting for the code because with the rebel sim streak does not connect to the Internet.
[Streak 5 General] flumps:
as far as im aware o2 has stated that they will not be providing unlock codes for at least 1 year.
[Streak 5 General] alfri:
Are you sure?

My streak dont have connection data with my rebel.and streak without data connection is not good.

A solution?
[Streak 5 General] lufc:
It is true o2 will not unlock them yet because they are the only ones selling them locked so will not unlock them so you can use there device on another network. I know dell sell them unlocked but o2 cannot do anything about them.

Once the device is more available there will be a way to unlock it its just so new, I have read about people getting data on the rebel Sim did you go to rebels website they have a section just for the streak :)
[Streak 5 General] alfri:
I read the streak faq on the site rebel.but nothing.with tim i have data connection one time only in 2g.with 3 no data connection.

I must have a solution i cant have a streak with a rebel.rebel work very bad.

My friend that have buy 2 dell stak say,that o2 this week give the code to unlock.i hope.

Sorry for my english.
[Streak 5 General] lufc:
Have a read over here

http://android.modaco.com/content/d...-com/312016/dell-streak-rebelsim-ii-problems/

a few of them have got it to work with orange on 2G :)
[Streak 5 General] alfri:
O finaly work.

http://www.rebelsimcard.com/virtu/images/documents/product-usage-guide.pdf

I use this page.

But i wait a code to unlock.
[Streak 5 General] lufc:
Pleased for you mate glad you got it working :)
[Streak 5 General] ComfySofa:
Glad you got it working....ive bought a rebel sim and it wont even boot. Their website is useless as there are no contact emails or phone numbers that i can see - i fired up a online chat with a presales guy but as soon as he found out i was having problems he cut me off, just before he left an email address which i contacted but was then left a return mail saying bluntly "read the FAQ" which i did, which still didnt solve the problem or come anywhere near it. So from what i can currently see....its useless and so is their site. Personally i hope this thread appears in google if people are searching for info on their site. The guy that i bought the streak from has filled out the unlocking form but it looks like its 50/50 whether a number will be returned. I have also heard that they will unlock it for 50 quid....if i do get a code back ill post.
[Streak 5 General] ayazkhalid:
I have a streak and today i managed to get the data connection with a rebel sim. The point is that post putting in the streak , put the sim in another phone and use the internet, then put the sim in streak nand remember to spell the APN correctly, even the upper and lower cases should be kept in mind. Now my streak is giving good data speed on 2g
[Streak 5 General] talboy:
are you able to use the android market properly? Mine only shows up free apps and doesnt show any paid applications...

Says ''no matching content in android market''

anyone else experience this? i am using the rebel sim card also with 2g only and wifi running...
[Streak 5 General] joe2811:
Will O2 unlock a dell streak bought as a PAYG phone:confused:,i bought one off ebay,and i am using a O2 PAYG sim card in it that i have had since 2009:confused: i have filled in the unlocking form on the O2 web site:rolleyes: with details of my O2 PAYG sim,date last topped up,two phone numbers most dialled,IMEI number of the dell streak etc,but i have not had a reply from O2 yet:( only thing that worries me is that the person i got dell streak from on ebay,got the phone from O2 as an upgrade,so will O2 know when i fill in the unlocking form with the IMEI number that the phone was for a contract upgrade,and wonder why it is being used as a PAYG phone:confused: has anyone on here had there dell streak unlocked on PAYG from O2, as i read on here that they will unlock it in 3 months from purchase,if you buy it outright from them:) just wondering how it goes if purchased from ebay:confused: thanks for any help on here:):):)
[Streak 5 General] vinokirk:
O2 will not be unlocking any handsets for the forseeable future...period
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bkrill:
My specs:

Sapphire PVT 32B ENG s-off h

HBoot: 1.33.2005

Radio: 2.22.19.261

Ok, so here's my story. I rooted my phone back in november and have had no problems with anything. However, in the last few weeks as i have been trying Froyo roms i keep getting a notification to do a system update to 1.6. Weird i know. I have tried different roms, tried different gapps with all the different roms and the problem keeps persisting. So the only thing i can think is that i messed up when i first flashed it. After i flashed, i flashed the spl i have now.

I have been reading on how to unroot and apparently when some people try to flash the SAMPIMG.nbh file they get an error. I am interested in know if i will run into this problem?

Also, how would i got about flashing AMON 1.7 recovery back to my phone. when i orginally rooted i used cyan's recovery. Do i still have to download and use the flash rec. apk file or can i just use fastboot to flash AMON's after i root. I guess i'm really asking what it the proper way for me to unroot my phone (without using a gold card) and then to reroot it to have Amon's 1.7 recovery?